Hot Startups Hiring, Feb 28

👋 Welcome Back to Hot Startups Hiring: The weekly newsletter that sees the term “cracked engineer” as a term of endearment.

🤝 Good People Know Good People: That’s a mantra we use here at Coastal Recruiting. If there’s one thing we’ve found after placing hundreds of engineers at top startups, it’s that good people will always find a way to win. Next week, we’re going to be doubling down on this belief with a fresh rebrand for the newsletter, but for now, take a look at the Hot Startups Hiring below.

📝 In case you missed it: Last week we had a conversation with The Pragmatic Engineer about all things startup recruiting. Check out our conversation with The Pragmatic Engineer.

Key Takeaways:

• 50% of hires are backend, 25% full stack, 10-15% AI/ML, and 5% are frontend.

• Why startups are increasingly request intros to ‘cracked’ engineers.

• Actionable steps for engineers to standout to recruiters on LinkedIn

It’s a value packed conversation, → Read the Full Interview Here

🚀 Most In-Demand Roles Across the Startup Landscape

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Now - without further ado - check out the startups below building teams in New York City, San Francisco, and fully remote.

📍SAN FRANCISCO HOT STARTUPS HIRING 🌉

AI Developer Docs - Series A (a16z, YC)

• Mission/Vision: Leading AI-Native documentation platform

• TLDR:

  • Platform reaches 15m+ developers every year and power the documentation of 2500+ companies including Anthropic, Scale AI, Pinecone, Zapier, Replit to over 20% of YC startups

  • #1 YC product used by YC companies for last 4 years... used by last YC batch

  • 2,500+ customers, documentation reaches > 1.5 M people a month. Targeting $10MM ARR by EoY

• Open Roles ($180-250k):

  • Full Stack Engineer

  • Senior Backend Engineer

  • Front End

  • AI/ML Engineer

AI Automation at Scale - Seed (Founders Fund, OpenAI)

• Mission/Vision: Automating all manual human processes using AI for the world's largest companies.

• TLDR

  • The product is a novel way to describe processes using just English while being precise enough to work at scale reliably to do essential operations.

  • Currently powering Coinbase’s most critical compliance processes, globally.

  • Founded by an elite team of engineers (early-Ramp, Scale AI, Retool)

• Open Roles ($150 - $250K)

  • Senior Full Stack Engineer

  • Staff Software Engineer

  • FDE

  • Senior Backend Engineer

AI / Dev Tooling - Seed (Felicis, Ion Stoica)

• Mission/Vision: They are the platform to build stateful AI agents. Founded by the creators of MemGPT, which introduced memory management for LLMs to enable infinite context.

• TLDR:

  • Founding team has deep expertise in NLP, Reinforcement Learning, and AI systems - allowing them to have a strong sense of how the AI agents stack will evolve over time.

  • Established their own OSS agents framework for building agents with advanced memory management, reasoning, tool calling, and persisted state. 

  • Signing 6-figure+ customer contracts

• Open Roles ($200-290k + Equity):

  • Senior/Staff Full Stack

  • Senior/Staff Backend

  • Senior/Staff Frontend

  • AI/ML Researcher

📍 NEW YORK CITY HOT STARTUPS HIRING🗽

AI / Healthcare Network - Series A (Thrive Capital, Bain)

• Mission/Vision: AI-driven network revolutionizing healthcare by helping patients access critical medications faster and at lower costs.

• TLDR:

  • Tackling one of the most pressing challenges in healthcare—streamlining the process to ensure life-saving treatments reach those who need them most

  • Exceptional organic growth. Already supports thousands of patients every week and is doubling physician user count every month. Will reach millions of users and targeting $20M ARR by EoY

  • Building a network of doctors, patients, and data to apply AI to every step of bringing new drugs to market.

• Open Roles ($150-250K + Equity):

  • Senior Full Stack

  • Senior Back End

  • AI/ML

  • Senior Front End

Leading Blockchain WaaS - Series A (Further, Coinbase)

• Mission/Vision: Wallets-as-a-Service (WaaS) platform that helps fintechs, institutions, and enterprises worldwide simplify digital asset management and securely bring users into crypto.

• TLDR:

  • API-first approach has made them the most popular developer platform to configure, automate and orchestrate digital asset applications and operations at scale. 130 fintech clients, $1 billion in monthly transactions, 10+ million API calls per month

  • Trusted by clients like ABN AMRO, Fidelity, Zodia Custody, Bridge, Stripe, and more than 100 financial applications, they’ve created over 10 million wallets and secures 1 billion in transactions per month — zero hacks or lost keys

  • Small, lean, agile engineering team consisting of top blockchain, cryptography, and security leaders.

• Open Roles ($280-350K + Equity):

  • Principal Engineer

  • Staff Software Engineer

Leading AI/Healthcare - Series B (Lightspeed, a16z)

• Mission/Vision: Building automation solutions for the healthcare industry, focusing on insurance provider communication, and patient referrals.

• TLDR:

  • Incredibly strong strong PMF / commercial traction; 2nd fastest growing startup in a16z’s portfolio

  • Pacing for $20M+ ARR by EoY

  • 15-person eng team

• Open Roles ($220-250k):

  • Senior Backend Engineer

  • Senior Full Stack Engineer

  • Engineering Manager

  • AI/ML Engineer

Remote-First Opportunities 🌎

Crypto/Web3 - Series B (a16z, Lightspeed)

• Mission/Vision: Creating foundational infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of decentralized protocols based on blockchain technologies.

• TLDR:

  • $175M Series A (a16z, Paradigm, Thrive Capital, Ribbit Capital, Coatue)

  • Globally remote company and work culture

  • Decentralized, proof of stake blockchain with horizontally scalable throughput and storage

• Open Roles ($150-250k)

  • Senior Full Stack Engineer

  • Staff Software Engineer

  • Data Engineer

Leading NFT Marketplace - Series B (Sequoia, Greylock)

• Mission/Vision: Be the one-stop shop destination for digital assets to supercharge web3 commerce

• TLDR:

  • Leading Multi-Chain NFT Platform - Pushing Boundaries on Solana, Ethereum, Polygon and Bitcoin

  • 22M+ Unique Monthly Users (largest on Solana) & 8K+ NFT collections, 100K+ daily wallet connections, $1.9 B secondary trading volume

  • Largest NFT trading platform in crypto

• Open Roles ($170-250k):

  • Staff Software Engineer

  • Senior Backend

  • Mobile Engineer

AI Creator Tools - Series A (Tiger Global, Floodgate)

• Mission/Vision: Help teams of one (small businesses, agencies, entrepreneurs, creators) create on brand content (social media, blogs, emails, etc) in one click. Taking on Canva.

• TLDR:

  • Building a real-time document editor with collaborative editing and a Canva-like visual studio with thousands of templates and dynamic elements

  • INSANE commercial momentum: $0-10M ARR in < 8 months; 100K+ paying customers, 30% MoM growth

  • Small team of 20; full distributed work-force

• Open Roles ($140-170k):

  • Senior Full Stack

  • Senior Designer

Candidate Testimonial:

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